NOVEMBER WORKSHOP: TALISMAN

My Personal Studio: Screw Factory, Lakewood Ohio
NOV 18TH-22ND, 2026
Workshop hours: 18th- 21th 10am - 5pm EST
22ND 10am - 3pm EST

 

SECURE SPOT

Talisman Workshop — 5 day Journey of the Raw the Elegant and the Sacred  

 

 Join me in my personal studio for a rare, soul-forward, semi private workshop, exploring wire as a poetic language — a way to contain the sacred, honor the imperfect, and celebrate the raw edges of the world.

✧ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ✧
You’ll learn to see structure as story and join with intention — to work in alignment with your materials, your mind, and your heart.

+ Sculptural Wire Construction: Build small, wearable structures using negative and positive space. Layer wire and sheet metal with elegance, precision, and wildness.

 

+ Unconventional Stone Setting: Design raw, expressive prong and wire settings for dimensional materials —stones, gems, mica, crystal, petrified wood, found objects, and sacred relics.

 

+ Innovative Metalworking Techniques: Forge, twist, solder, and shape wire using studio techniques tailored for both strength and beauty.

 

+ Intuitive Design: Compose with restraint and resonance. Learn how to let the object lead — to build forms that reveal instead of concealing.

Technique leads. Story follows naturally.

✧ THE STUDIO EXPERIENCE ✧

INCLUDES:

+ Organic lunch from a local restaurant, light breakfast and coffee

 

+ Energy alignment sessions evening - with l Dr. Sam- You feel amazing afterwards and I call it learning your assets while getting in balance. 

                                     + somatic release

                                     +Intention setting and group attainment

                                     +Physical + energetic alignment for inspired creation

+Bench + torch setup provided (please bring your personal pliers + a few small tools). Brass and bronze metals will be provided if you’d like to work with something other than sterling silver.

✧ WHAT THIS WORKSHOP IS ✧

This is an opportunity for a few artists and jewelers to come to my studio and explore + build their own personal body of work and stories that accompany them. In this five-day journey, we will build architectural settings and sculptural containers using wire, sheet metal, and story. Inspired by forms from nature and lines from architecture, you’ll learn to create prongs, twists, and tension settings that hold space for the mysterious — stones, objects, relics, and memories that don’t fit into traditional frames.

We’ll move beyond technique and into presence.

SECURE SPOT

✧ DETAILS ✧

✧ WORKSHOP SUPPLY LIST ✧

I will be providing a basic soldering setup for everyone, including:

  • Butane gas + butane torch
  • Flux + pickle
  • Polishing tools
  • Small anvil
  • Rolling mill
  • Soldering pick

✧ TOOLS TO BRING ✧

Please bring your personal hand-held tools, especially the ones you naturally work with in your studio:

  • Pliers
  • Longer tweezers
  • Locking pliers
  • Hammers
  • Any stamps or dies you love
  • Silver solder

✧ MATERIALS TO BRING ✧

We’ll be focusing on wire and sheet metal, and your process will become your own within that.

Sterling Silver:

  • 1 oz of 14 gauge square wire
  • 12” to 1 oz of round wire in:
    • 18 gauge
    • 24 gauge
  • At least one piece of 24 gauge sheet metal (approx. 3” x 6”)

Additional Metals + Components:

  • Fine silver scraps (or small pieces approx. 1” x 1”)
  • Bezel wire, filigree, or fine silver strip (½” to 1/8”)
  • Scrap silver for fusing and creating
  • Any stones, gems, glass, or found objects you’d like to work with

If you tend to work larger, please bring materials that support that scale.

 

✧ OPTIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED ✧

I will also have available for use:

  • Bronze sheet metal
  • Bronze solder
  • Wire and bezel wire

✧ A NOTE ON SUPPLIES ✧

Please don’t stress too much about this list.
This is a guide for small to medium work—if you work larger, simply bring more of what you need.

 

✧ WHAT TO BRING (PERSONAL WORK) ✧

If you have a current body of work or pieces in progress, please bring them.
If not, that’s completely okay.

I’ll be meeting with each of you individually to help guide your process—building from the heart, shaping your line, and developing your personal body of work.

 

✧ FOOD + STUDIO DETAILS ✧

  • Water, coffee, light fruit, and snacks will be available throughout the day
  • A fresh organic lunch will be provided daily from local restaurants

We also now have a café right below the studio:
Flour and Bean — available if you need anything extra

 

 

✧ COMMUNICATION ✧

If you have questions, please post them in the Facebook group—
chances are, someone else is wondering the same thing.

I’ll be answering everything there.
The week before, I’ll also send my phone number for any day-of needs (finding the studio, elevator access, etc.).

 

 

✧ SCHEDULE ✧

  • Workshop begins Wednesday Nov 18th at 10:00 AM
  • Feel free to arrive at 9:30 AM on the first day to settle in and get started

Dates: November 18th-22nd , 2026

Location: Personal studio of Susan Lenart (13000 Athens Ave, Cleveland, OH) studio 0380 

Cost: $1,450

Payment Options: Pay in full or 2 payments of $725

 

Address:

1300 Athens Ave, Studio 0380
Lakewood, OH 44107


Fly into: 

Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE)


Lodging:

Susan suggests getting AirBnB or hotel in Lakewood. She recommends the Hilton Cleveland Downtown (see below). She doesn't recommend the Hilton at the airport.

Hilton Cleveland Downtown
100 Lakeside Ave. E
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 413-5000

 

✧ FINAL NOTE ✧

Safe travels to all of you.

I’m genuinely excited to gather in this space together—
to make, to explore, to push into something bigger.

Let’s build something powerful.

After a long time of molding and crafting, our high-class ceramics, I always have the perfect beauty you need.
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After a long time of molding and crafting, our high-class ceramics, I always have the perfect beauty you need.
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